Not really a contradiction these days when people on the so-called left support US proxy wars and dollar hegemony and efforts to destabilize other countries because America is the lesser evil in their propagandized minds.
This is a new narrative by the right that I've seen echo-chambering around the internet lately. It is interesting. It makes zero sense, but it is interesting. I'm curious how this came to be and how it justifies some of the core tenets or practices of the right. Is Fox pushing this? Tucker? Ben? Where did this come from?
Not supporting Ukraine and wanting a former super power to steal land, resources, and cities from a much weaker neighbor only makes sense to me if it derived from the idolization of a "strong" presidential image; despising the weak/the underdog; basing all policies on the opposite of what moderate republicans, centrists, and liberals might want; the fact Biden's son did business there; the tried and true "help Americans before helping [insert marginalized group here], despite not realizing it is the right that refuses to spend money helping Americans; and its been disingenuously pitched as a culture war. I would assume that they are the most upset that centrists/liberals support Ukraine; they don't realize it isn't Ukraine blocking Americans from getting support, but the right's anti-social spending policies; and because they interpret it as a right/left culture war.
The culture war doesn't make sense as the two cultures were so similar, especially in relation to two key things that matters on the right now: not supporting homosexuality (see:
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/06/25/global-divide-on-homosexuality-persists/) and abortion (both Ukraine and Russia allow abortion before the 12 week mark).
Moreover, while I'm sure some war wariness has partially bred their isolationist view, that wariness was not present when Trump was provoking war with Iran and attempting a coup in Venezuela. They might hate the after-effects of their right-wing meddling, but this seems to be couched in the amnesia of who brought us into Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Grenada, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Congo, Vietnam, Chile, and so on. The aggressive right-wing CIA desire to meddle in other countries' affairs due to irrational fears, support of capitalism, or overt support of wealthy Americans reaping enormous profits is never an issue, but when it comes to bite us in the ass after we forgot why it happened, maybe then it matters? What happens if the right starts reading Chomsky's critiques of US/CIA interventions? Will they start quoting Chomsky to me? Will they want to borrow books from me?
Finally, the desire for the USD to be just another currency in the global market is an interesting one. I can't make sense of this other than they hate the FED and despite America's inflation being lower than most of our OECD peers, they want to think the FED is to blame for inflation. They want to blame Keynesian economics that Trump, Biden, and J. Powell employed during the pandemic for inflation and the resulting increase in interest rates. Also, there is the notion that a weak dollar means more manufacturing jobs (Trump said he wanted to weaken the dollar, although it was strong during his presidency and was weak for 7/8 of Obama's years), but it comes at the cost of cheap goods for Americans to buy. The right has supported cheap goods over everything for decades. It was those annoying leftists who supported unions and decent paying jobs that got in the way.
This new narrative is an interesting one. Maybe neo-conservativism is dead, but I'm afraid of what comes next. Neo-conservatism and free-marketism was scary enough.
https://youtu.be/84P4dzow1Bw?si=5mD562jkBVODNGf1
Topic: Which wheel company would carry a public radio tote bag to the farmers market? (Read 1648 times)